Hi,
May be of interest to anyone in the Denver-metro area interested in USGS
research...
More info on the Paradox Basin :
https://energy.usgs.gov/OilGas/AssessmentsData/NationalOilGasAssessment/USBasinSummaries.aspx?provcode=5021
Enjoy the day,
Emily
Emily C. Wild
Librarian (Physical Scientist)
U.S. Geological Survey, Denver Library
Denver Federal Center
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*“The Chuar Petroleum System, Arizona and Utah”*
*Abstract:*
The Neoproterozoic Chuar Group consists of marine mudstone, sandstone and
dolomitic strata divided into the Galeros and Kwagunt Formations, and is
exposed only in the eastern Grand Canyon, Arizona. Research by the U.S.
Geological Survey (USGS) in the late 1980s identified strata within the
group to be possible petroleum source rocks, and in particular the Walcott
Member of the Kwagunt Formation. Industry interest in a Chuar oil play led
to several exploratory wells drilled in the 1990s in southern Utah and
northern Arizona to test the overlying Cambrian Tapeats Sandstone
reservoir, and confirm the existence of the Chuar in subcrop. USGS
geochemical analyses of Tapeats oil shows in two wells have been
tentatively correlated to Chuar bitumen extracts. Distribution of the Chuar
in the subsurface is poorly constrained with only five well penetrations,
but recently published gravity/aeromagnetic interpretations provide further
insight into the Chuar subcrop distribution. The Chuar petroleum system was
reexamined as part of the USGS Paradox Basin resource assessment in 2011. A
map was constructed to delineate the Chuar petroleum system that
encompasses the projected Chuar source rock distribution and all oil shows
in the Tapeats Sandstone, assuming that the Chuar is the most likely source
for such oil shows. Two hypothetical plays were recognized but not
assessed: (1) a conventional play with a Chuar source and Tapeats
reservoir, and (2) an unconventional play with a Chuar source and
reservoir. The conventional play has been discouraging because most surface
structures have been tested by drilling with minimal petroleum shows, and
there is some evidence that petroleum may have been flushed by CO2 from
Tertiary volcanism. The unconventional play is untested and remains
promising even though the subcrop distribution of source facies within the
Chuar Group is largely unknown.
*Our Presenter*
*Paul G. Lillis*
Paul Lillis is a petroleum geochemist with the Central Energy Resources
Science Center of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) in Denver, Colorado. He
received a B.A. in geology from San Jose State University, an M.S. in
geology from San Diego State University, and a Ph.D. in geochemistry from
Colorado School of Mines. He was a petroleum exploration geologist with
Atlantic Richfield for eight years (1978 to 1986) in Colorado, California,
and Texas, and has been with the USGS in Denver since 1987. His research
focuses on the application of petroleum and source-rock geochemistry to
identifying, characterizing, and mapping petroleum systems.
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